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| Thread ID: 74498 | 2006-11-24 23:04:00 | Slow PC at work | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | Press F1 |
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| 501869 | 2006-11-24 23:04:00 | Hey peeps :D Now, there is this old (3 years old maybe) PC an IBM of some sort, not sure exactly but running XP Home at work and it is getting slower and slower, I have a look at the RAM usage and there is only like 60MB out of 256MB free, I keep it all up to date and virus/adware scanned weekly, disk defrg, the works, then I decided to run HijackThis, that fin, I thought it would pick up a lot of stuff, but no it picked up nothing out of the ordinary... I am thinking of upgrading the RAM. What can I do to speed it up a little? Thanks :) |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 501870 | 2006-11-24 23:21:00 | 256MB of RAM isnt much so upgrading the RAM to about 1GB would be a good start. It will make a huge difference to yr PC's performace. Since you have done stuffs like virus checks and disk defrg.... theres nuthing else I can think of unless you can afford to put in a faster CPU that your MB supports. Hope this helps! | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 501871 | 2006-11-25 04:04:00 | CCleaner as well. Clear out the restore points. The usual de-cluttering as well as some more RAM. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 501872 | 2006-11-25 04:45:00 | restore points dont slow the puter down.........what you need to do is check what is running at system startup......clik startbutton/run then type in msconfig then tap enter.....then goto the startup tab.....this shows all the stuff that is set to run at system startup, all the stuff you see in the lower right hand corner of the screen, (the system tray) theres usually lots of crap there you dont need.......UNtick some stuff........also has it been defragged ? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 501873 | 2006-11-25 08:06:00 | Broken short cuts repair, classes repairs, registry, repairs, etc. Plus make sure use a paid version spyware scanner like WebSweep or Lavasoft Ad-Aware. They're really effective. | PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
| 501874 | 2006-11-25 09:04:00 | restore points dont slow the puter down......... No, but its part of the declutter/malware process. Malware does lurk in restore points and it can be a good idea to clear them then restart it and make a new one once the PC is nice and clean again. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 501875 | 2006-11-25 10:43:00 | ronyville - 1GB will be too much for what it needs I would think, that is if the mobo can support it. (IBM 8419KMA) also the CPU is fine, it is the RAM situation the is slowing it down as it needs to use the HDD pagefile CPU is a P4 2.8GHz Northwood is socket 478 pctek - I do all the usual decluttering including resoter points, but I have not run CCleaner on it yet. drcspy - I have done that, I have disabled everything that was running on startup that was not needed. PedalSlammer - It has Windows Defender and Adaware on it, they are lucky if they pickup the odd tracking cookie each week. Though I do suspect that it could do with a good wipe and reinstall. I ran Everest and done a full report so I know a fair amount about what hardware is in there now. BTW, there is 256MB of RAM in bank 1 and it is 256 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (Samaung brand) |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 501876 | 2006-11-25 11:48:00 | Your trouble is obvious. You have XP Home, - - - AT WORK. It is homesick. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 501877 | 2006-11-25 12:03:00 | restore points dont slow the puter down. Yes they do if the HD is running out of room which is what I would check here. With only 256Mb of ram it is going to using a big swap file and if there is not a nice contiguous space XP will be stuffed. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 501878 | 2006-11-25 13:14:00 | Most work computers these days have more free space than used. | Greven (91) | ||
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